Monday • MOTR Pub

Vic and Gab’s first full-length, last year’s Love of Mine,
is even more assured, the sound of a band coming into its own. Album
opener “Love of Mine” sets the tone, a dreamily atmospheric Pop tune
that’s almost impossible to eradicate once it enters your ears.

Thursday • MOTR Pub

The Dex Romweber Duo's Images 13 drops next month, and it’s an amalgam of everything that has erupted
from Romweber’s fevered creative genius from the start — twisted ’50s
Rockabilly and romantic Pop, high-octane ’60s Surf, raw, electric Blues
and even strains of Jazz and Exotica.

NYC’s Low Cut Connie has established a healthy Cincinnati following with perseverance and great shows

A decade ago, years before American
keyboardist Adam Weiner and British drummer/guitarist Dan Finnemore
realized their vision of incendiary Piano Rock as Low Cut Connie, Weiner
made his Greater Cincinnati solo debut. Booked at the original
Southgate House, Weiner found an audience unimpressed
with his offerings.

Saturday • MOTR Pub

The mayor of Minneapolis declared Sept.
13, 2013 as “Har Mar Superstar Day,” in honor of a man whose soulful,
hyper-sexual R&B stylings have been overshadowed by his resemblance
to porn star Ron Jeremy and a stage show that includes the singer
clothed in nothing more than a pair of tighty-whities.

Sunday • MOTR Pub

Every show Empires has played in
Cincinnati, it has been memorable. The Chicago quintet’s Queen City
debut was at 2010’s MidPoint festival, which guitarist Tom Conrad
recalls thusly: “I remember everyone being extremely wasted and playing
really late, and walking away thinking, ‘I don’t know what this was but
I’d love to come back.’”

Friday • MOTR Pub

Last fall, Sebadoh released the comeback full-length Defend Yourself,
the band’s first album in 14 years. The album recaptured some of the
dizzying sonic diversity of Sebadoh’s early Sub Pop recordings, but also
finds Barlow and Loewenstein’s songwriting skills as sharp as ever.

Monday • MOTR Pub

Eight years ago, ex-Rat Traps
vocalist/guitarist/keyboardist Jeffrey Novak envisioned a Garage-stained
band that would nod toward Glam Rock and Power Pop influences, fueled
by the Punk he’d been playing since his teenage years. The
Nashville native formed Cheap Time and released the well-received self-titled debut full-length in 2008.

With current tour, Julianna Barwick takes her acclaimed ambient sound from bars to synagogues

Julianna Barwick, whose music consists of
ethereal and largely wordless vocals looped and otherwise layered to
achieve a haunting choral effect as she plays keyboards, has booked some
unusual venues for the tour that brings her to Cincinnati this week.

Longtime local rockers celebrate new album release tonight at MOTR Pub

It has been much too long since Patrick Hennessy and any viable version of The Tigerlilies have committed to a studio regimen and the clear goal of emerging with something/anything approaching the scorching delight of their first three discs, 1992's Deeper, 1997's Space Age Love Songs and 2003's Ceci N'Est Pas Pop. Hennessy's involvement with The Fairmount Girls began in 2004, a span of time that nearly equals the gap between the Tigerlilies' third release and its latest and perhaps greatest recorded document, In the Dark.Vocalist/guitarist Hennessy, his drumming/singing brother Steve and bassist Brian Driscoll were joined by guitarist/vocalist Brendan Bogosian about midway through The Tigerlilies' long studio drought; Bogosian even did a little moonlighting of his own with Kry Kids. Somehow, the quartet managed to motivate themselves to pen a dozen new Tigerlilies classics and set to work with Culture Queer's Jeremy Lesniak at the console to create In the Dark. In fact, when I interviewed Culture Queer a little over a year ago, Lesniak was in the process of digitally tweaking In the Dark and promised that it would be their best album to date. That has turned out to be a promise well kept.While The Tigerlilies are enamored with Rock's Glam period and Punk traditions, the band tends to filter it all through a greater love of Brit Pop in general, not to mention a proclivity toward a more defined Power Pop direction, resulting in a sound that suggests Cheap Trick and Husker Du teaming up for a Clash tribute. That position is made perfectly clear on In the Dark, from full throttle disc opener "Hold on Tight" to the melancholy joy of "Don't Let It Get You Down" to the Husker/Trick jittery jangle of "Sweetheart" and the anthemic Velvet Crush-like barnstorm of "Some Things Are Meant to Be." In the Dark isn't all bash-and-crash, with more than a few relatively quiet moments (the Beatlesque "Pull You In," "Five Will Get You Ten," the title track) offered as a bit of a breather, but even at their most sedate, The Tigerlilies bristle with an undeniable love of chiming Pop spiked with a bracing dose of melodic Punk. Learn how to get a song on itunes at ReverbNation.comDon't miss The Tigerlilies' release party for In the Dark TONIGHT at MOTR Pub starting at 10 p.m. with openers Subsets.

Friday • MOTR Pub

One of the leading lights of the Dayton Indie music scene is the
hyper-melodic Pop Rock outfit Motel Beds, which has been kicking around
since the early ’00s, gradually building up a stack of fawning press
notices and a loyal fan base.